Bathing-suit.



O GARRABINE.

BATHING QUIT APPLICATION FILED MAR, 25, 1911.

Patented Apr. 23, 1912 messes affaweelr/s Tooll whom it may concern:

However, in the preferred embodiment of York city, county and shown, the shirt OSCAR CARRABINR' OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

BATI-IING-SUIT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 23, 1912.

Applieation filed March 25, 1911. Serial No. 616,835.

Be it known that I, OSCAR CARRABINE, a citizen of the United States, residing at New State of New York,

have invented certain new and useful Improvements in 'Batl1ing-Suits, of which the following is a clear, full and exact descrip t1on..

This invention relates to a body;fitting garment particularly adapted for bathing purposes. I

It is well-known that the so-called onepiece bathings'uit is a much more comfort able garmentto wear in bathing than the two-piece suit, for the reason among other things, that'the one-piece suit is supported from the shoulders and Without any binding-strain around the waist, leaving the body much more free in its movements. The twopiece bathing suit however, is sometimes preferred, due-to its less dcollct and more modest appearance, and my. construction of bathing suit combines all the advantages of comfort, inherent in the one-piece suit while having the external appearance of the tw0- piece bathing suit.

I realize that man variations and m0difi-' cations of-my idea may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of my invention as defined in the appended claim.

my invention as shown in the drawings, Fig ure 1 is a perspective View of the entire garment; and Fig. 2 is a longitudinal central section through the same, showing the attachment of the shirt portion to the trunk portion.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, my bathing suit consists of an upper or shirt portion 1 similar to the ordinary upper-half of a two-piece bathing suit, and a lower or trunk portion 2 somewhat similar to the ordinarylower-half of a two-piece suit. The shirt portion 1 is provided with the ordinary neck opening 3 and arm openings 4 and 5, the restof the garment being continuous and without any opening, to its lowerend l. The trunk portion 2 is likewise provided with open-ended legs 6 and '7 and is fastened to the shirt portion 1 at its inside by a continuous and permanently.

formed seam 8 as shown i11.Fig. As portion IS extended below the seam 8 at 1 separably from said trunk portion to overlie and partially cover the l same.

. in place.

.up into an upper sleeveless conspicuous as possible on the outside of the The seam 8 should be made as in-- garment, and is preferably located, as shown very slightly above the crotch 11 of said trunk legs so that when the garment is being worn properly, this scam is Quite a little distance below the waist-line and may rest ever.

below the hips. In other words, the trunk portion 2 has hardly any or no waist at all separate from said shirt portion 1. and the object of this is to avoid the scam 8 appearing as the waist line of the. garment from which the lower end of the shirt would droop like short skirt. The garment thus formed is substantially a one-piece suit having no means to get'into the the neck opening 3. 4

In order to facilitate the adjustmentrof this suit upon the wearer, I prefer to form a break 9 at the upper portion of the garment between the neck opening 8 and one of the arm openings such as 5. This break 9 is provided with suitable securing devices such as buttons 10 for fastening the same together after the garment has been adjusted A similar breakmay likewise be formed between the neck opening and the opening 4:, but one generally suflicient to easily get into the garment It will thus be seen that my bathing suit has the external appearance of a two-piece suit, due to the fact of having the shirt portion exended at l trunk portion, while the permanent scam 8 between the trunk and shirt portions permanently secures these parts together to give all the advantages of comfort and other qualities of a onepiece suit.

'Instead of oining the slnrt and trunk portions of the garment together by a seam such shown at 8, it is obviouslhat the garment may be knitted or woven continuously down to the line 8 and there separate into a double ply, the inner ply the trunk legs and the outer ply into the lower shirt portion 1 yVVhat- I claim as new is:-

A one-piece bathing tinuous unbroken body lift:

shirt portion with supporting shoulder straps one of whichi s separable into attachable tabs, and

two distinct lower portions. the under porsame except through of said breaks is to partially cover the being formed into comprising a contion being formed into legs, the outer pertion forming a continuation of said shirt Signed at New York, N. Y., this 24: day iortion, on all sides and loosely overlying of March, 1911.

aid legs said portions 'bein fixedly united T completely 'around the low r end of said OSCAR OARRABIBE 5 shirt portion to present unsymmetrical ap- NVitneesee:

pearance on both sides and be reversible Bm'mrcn Mmvrs,

front to rear. liLolmxrn JACKSON. 

